Paul Hammant talking about stuff related to Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT), and lamenting the fact that nobody has brought the 2:1 sail-inspired design to production 110 years after the first patent was applied for.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Sam Weiss's animation of the design.

You'll have to click it, as the author has disabled linking - http://youtu.be/vdMGdF9g490

This one's a nice plan view of what happens, and should be instantly understandable to anyone that done dingy/yacht sailing. Sam Weiss even did his MIT thesis based on this :)